The Family Man’s Stock Market Volatility Survival Guide: How to Defend Your Family in Any Economy - Softcover

Carpenter Jr., Donald F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595520693 ISBN 13: 9780595520695

Publisher: iUniverse, 2015

Synopsis

The stock market and the economy are volatile, and it’s difficult to know what moves to make to protect investments and savings. In The Family Man’s Stock Market Volatility Survival Guide, author Donald F. Carpenter Jr. offers a guide geared toward men who are trying to protect their families’ financial future. Mr. Carpenter offers some important market strategies and investment advice for long-term financial stability. To help Family Men take inventory of their situation, The Family Man’s Stock Market Volatility Survival Guide addresses the following: how you became worried about your finances in the first place; how and why family men ought to invest; the eight steps to protecting family wealth; how to survive stock market volatility; how and why American business survives in tough times; where money really comes from, and the six simple criteria for choosing an investment pro. The Family Man’s Stock Market Volatility Survival Guide will help you reorient your priorities toward the sacred trust of financially defending your family in any economy.

About this title

About the Author

Donald F. Carpenter Jr. is happily married and has 5 amazing children. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Riverside; a master’s degree from the Claremont Graduate University; and the ZDaF from the Goethe Institute, Frankfurt Germany. Mr. Carpenter has worked in the financial services industry for 20 years. In 2005 he established DFC Wealth Management LLC. Mr. Carpenter lives and works in Century City, California.

Review

KIRKUS REVIEW: An enthusiastic guide to financial planning focuses on the highly masculine.
In this debut business book, Carpenter makes his target audience clear in the opening pages: "So if you have a wife and kids but you hate their guts, stop reading. If you're single with no kids, stop reading. If you're a player, a hoochie, a cougar, a badger, an international playboy, or a party girl--STOP." "Family Men," in the author's view, "have taken on the responsibility of supporting, sustaining, and protecting the lives of others." Readers who appreciate that approach will find that the volume is filled with standard, sensible financial advice, from managing spending and saving regularly to diversifying across asset classes and hiring a professional adviser. In a tone that will appeal to fans of Esquire, Deadspin, and The Billfold, Carpenter encourages readers to cut back on luxuries until all basic financial needs are met, to engage in estate planning, and to take sensible risks in allocating assets. The majority of the advice is general and philosophical, but it includes some unique elements among the more concrete tips, such as how to find out if complaints have been filed against a financial planner. On the whole, the work is a collection of sensible and practical advice, distinguished from other personal finance literature primarily through its hypermasculine narrative voice. That voice may draw in some readers, but the active exclusion of others limits its potential market. While the writing brings a welcome enthusiasm to a potentially dry topic, the book is not without shortcomings: a few references that were accurate earlier in the decade (gas prices of $4 per gallon, a Dow Jones index several thousand points below its current level) seem out of place in a recently published work, and the idea that the Declaration of Independence provides "all the knowledge you'll ever need to be a successful investor" is cause for a raised eyebrow.

A common-sense volume on personal finance, written for men who take responsibility for their families' fiscal well-being.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595520693
• ISBN 13: 9780595520695
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 114